JNC #4 Teaser: Lexus LFA Meets Toyota 2000GT

The hottest car on Earth right now is none other than the Lexus LFA. Let’s see: performance among the world’s best, a roaring engine by Yamaha, and a sharply styled body that belies a state-of-the-art chassis. Oh, and it’s also the most expensive Japanese car ever built. No wonder mainstream car mags are calling it Japan’s first supercar.

However, JNC readers might disagree. Over forty years ago the same automaker hit all those points with the Toyota 2000GT. Jay Leno‘s the only we know of that’s even mentioned this predecessor.

Like everyone else at SEMA, we drooled over the LFA at its US debut. As we stood there with mouths agape, the Lexus rep saw us holding a copy of JNC and exclaimed, “Hey, I love this mag!” We weren’t about to let an endorsement like that go to waste! We wrangled a 2000GT/LFA photo shoot on the spot and a week later we were in Toyota’s top secret unmarked warehouse somewhere in Torrance.

Here’s a quick behind-the-scenes cell phone cam pic. The full article will be in JNC #4 and as far as we know, it’ll be the only article showing these two stupendously magnificent machines together.

No seriously. I’d take it. Like…if I was at that photoshoot I’d just jump in the LFA and drive it away. And you wouldn’t see me again until some Thelma-and-Louise style finale involving the police and helicopters.

I wonder what yamaha would do if they made their own supercar,they nailed the drive line. why not set the target at a ferrarri killer.the LFA cost as much, and a smaller car company could make it more competitively priced.Just add carbon fiber and move over!
Is that crazy?Both toyotas rock though, So does JNC!

lots of comments on Jay Leno’s site were negative. lots of complaints on how the LFA is “Ugly” and how European cars (and even the Corvette) are better car for the money!!!. I think that most them miss the point on what the Japanese philosophy on making cars. If I were to take this argument on the “ugliness” of the design then I think one could say that Porsche doesn’t make pretty cars either…. but ppl still buy them in droves